package lint suggestions

Reini Urban rurban@x-ray.at
Sat May 3 12:45:00 GMT 2008


2008/5/3 Yaakov (Cygwin Ports):
>  Charles Wilson wrote:
>  | * The "check all packages for file conflicts" is a big job -- and will
>  | get lots of false positives whenever a package is split up into
>  | -devel/lib/bin pieces.  However, there are a few files that commonly
>  | conflict between packages:
>
>  "big job" is an understatement; google "gentoo collision-protect" to get
>  an idea.

Not so big.
I've added that feature to collision-protect subpackages within cygport.
To check against all package we'd need just the /etc/setup/*.lst.gz lists.
-- 
Reini



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